Viet Nam Generation, Inc. is a small literary and educational nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation. I founded it in 1988 when I was a grad student in American Studies. Viet Nam Generation, Inc. was founded to support the publication of an interdisciplinary journal, _Viet Nam Generation_, dedicated to providing a forum for scholars, artists and activists interested in the 1960s in the U.S. and internationally. Now the journal is entering its seventh volume-year. In 1990 we started publishing a line of monographs, fiction and poetry related, in some fashion, to our subject area of the 1960s. We've currently got 27 titles in print (including those forthcoming in 1995). I was joined in my endeavors by my partner Dan Duffy (in 1991) and Steve Gomes (in 1993). We continue to work full-time on a volunteer basis, but hope to be stable enough to pay small salaries by the end of 1995. Viet Nam Generation, Inc. also sponsors the Sixties Project, a collective of scholars interested in the 1960s, housed at the Institute of Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. As part of the Sixties Project we maintain the electronic discussion list SIXTIES-L. POETICS readers might be interested in the publications listed below. As you'll notice, many of the books are in our "White Noise" series. I think we may be the only press admittedly publishing middle-aged white guys as an ethnic group. Our other series is titled "Widespread Panic," and features a variety of poets whose work is distinguished by its confrontational nature.... Best, Kali Tal Viet Nam Generation, Inc./Burning Cities Press 18 Center Rd., Woodbridge, CT 06525 FAX: 203/389-6104 Email: kalital@minerva.cis.yale.edu ________________________________ VIET NAM GENERATION/BURNING CITIES PRESS POETRY PUBLICATIONS _Viet Nam Generation: A Journal of Recent History and Contemporary Culture_. Accepts poetry submissions. We're looking for work which can be at least loosely related to the 1960s in subject matter, influence, politics, or form. Length is no object--we've published everything from short-shorts to 30-page cycles. We usually produce double-issues, so the journal effectively comes out twice a year, averages 220pp, perfect bound, with no advertising. There are only three of us reading all poetry submissions and responding to authors, so it sometimes takes us a while (up to 4 months) to respond. We publish 15-20 poets in an issue. Sample copies are available for $15 each. AMATO, JOE. _Symptoms of a Finer Age_. 92 pages, perfect bound, paper, 4-color cover, forthcoming March 1995. White Noise #5. ISBN: 1-885215-12-6. Joe will no doubt blush when he reads this (hi Joe!), but we think the world of him. Joe teaches English and composition at the Illinois Institute of Technology. His technical expertise is combined with passion, a fine ear for language, and a strong sense of social justice. Reading his work is like watching a skilled professional put on a stunning display of Fourth of July fireworks--even the most cynical can't help being taken in by the magic. We figure that 25 or 30 years from now, when the lit critters look back and marvel at the wealth of talent that Viet Nam Generation, Inc. has managed to assemble, we'll be most appreciated for showcasing Joe.... BARKER, DAN, _Warrior of the Heart_. 276 pages, perfect bound, paper, 2-color cover, 1992. ISBN: 0-9628524-7-3. $15. When Dan Barker's manuscript came "over the transom," we knew it was the answer to our publishing prayers. What arrived that day was one of the finest Viet Nam war narratives that we'd ever read. And we'd read hundreds. We never did figure out if _Warrior of the Heart_ was poetry or prose, and we don't really care. It's fucking beautiful, and it doesn't flinch. Dan Barker served as a naval corpsman attached to the Marine Corps in Viet Nam. He is the founder and director of The Home Gardening Project, which has built over 1,100 raised-bed vegetable gardens for the aged, disabled and single-parent families of Portland, Oregon. CHRISTOPHER, RENNY, _Viet Nam and California_. 82 pages, perfect bound, paper, 2-color cover, forthcoming September 1995. Widespread Panic #2. ISBN: 1-885215-13-4. Renny's poems are strong and straightforward. They tell the story of a woman's coming-of-age in the period during and after the Viet Nam war, and of her relationships with several Viet Nam veterans. These spare portraits are grounded in Renny's solid sense of herself as a woman with working-class roots. COLEMAN, HORACE, _In the Grass_. 84 pages, perfect bound, paper, 2-color cover, forthcoming October 1995. Widespread Panic #3. ISBN: 1-885215-17-7. Horace is an African-American rebel poet. His early Viet Nam war poetry was featured in the first collections assembled by W.D. Ehrhart and First Casualty Press, and his poem gave the title to Ehrhart's _Carrying the Darkness_ anthology. Over the years Horace's tongue has sharpened and his anger has been refined into the razor bite of _In the Grass_. This is a long overdue collection of his work. CONNOLLY, DAVID, _Lost in America." 72 pages, perfect bound, paper, 2-color cover, 1994. White Noise #1. ISBN: 1-885215-00-2. $12. David Connolly was born, raised, and still lives in South Boston. He was a nineteen-year-old infantryman in Viet Nam--the product of a close Irish Catholic, pro-IRA, working class family. During his year at war he became sick at heart over what his country was doing to a people whose lifestyle and struggle he came to see as being closely related to that of his own heritage. A quarter of a century later, Connolly still makes those connections with passion and power. We just put this book out, so the reviews haven't started to filter back to us yet, but David gave a reading at a conference we held in November and in December we got 15 orders for his book from professors who wanted to use it in literature courses. EHRHART, W.D., _Just for Laughs_. 84 pages, perfect bount, paper, 4-color cover, 1990. ISBN: 0-9628524-0-6. $10. By his writing and editing, W.D. Ehrhart made it possible to be a Viet Nam veteran writer. By his continued work, Ehrhart has become the conscience and inspiration for those who have been sparked into literature by seeing the American war machine on parade. _Just for Laughs_ brings poems addressing Ehrhart's return to Viet Nam, his marriage and family life, and the American wars in Central America. The final poems of this book summon Ehrhart's nightmare past as a Marine in Viet Nam, and evoke his pessimism about the future, from a sense that embraces the present with care and fear. "W.D. Ehrhart continues to deserve recognition, perhaps more than any other, as the Vietnam author in his generation who in fact made the idea of such a thing possible in the first place." --Philip D. Beidler, _Re-Writing America: Vietnam Authors in their Generation_. JAFFE, MAGGIE, _Continuous Performance_. 64 pages, perfect bound, paper, 2-color cover, 1990. ISBN: 0-9628524-6-5. $10. Maggie Jaffe, peace activist and poet, interrogates the images of empire that form American ideals of war. She places "Viet Nam" in a continuum of aggression that begins with the Pilgrim Fathers and extends through the secret wars of the 1980s and 1990s. Her short poems are connected to the historical record by direct reference and opinionated statement. "Maggie Jaffe's new poems expose the rot behind the baby pink veneer of our image makers. Her verse is boldly political, her human commitment passionate and profound." --Marianne Hauser. "_Continuous Performance_ stands out as a testimony that Maggie Jaffe was not silent, when the times demanded that poets write about important issues." --Jon Forrest Glade, _American Book Review_. LIEBLER, M.L., _Stripping the Adult Century Bare_. 88 pages, perfect bound, paper, 2-color cover, forthcoming March 1995. White Noise #6. ISBN: 1-885215-09-6. $12. M.L. has been called a cross between T.S. Eliot and Ward Cleaver. He is a professor of English at Wayne State University, a small press publisher, and a social activist. His Magic Poetry Band regularly performs in his home town of Detroit, and occasionally tours. _Stripping the Adult Century Bare_ is an anthology of Liebler's new and older verse, focusing on the impact of the 1960s on his life. His heroes are Jesus and John Lennon. "M.L. Liebler is a tremendous source of poetry energy in the The Motor City and beyond." --John Sinclair. "M.L. Liebler is a complex mix of poet, university professor, performance poet, Lollapalooza performer and Christian writer... he has played a vital role in keeping the poetry scene alive during its dark days of the 70s and 80s." --_The Detrois News_. "M.L. Liebler is a piece of the reality poetry needs to stay alive. Alive, and kicking, not forgetting the hurt Americans inflict on themselves, each other, and the world--but ready to fight, and sing, the song of hope. He is a beacon! More power to Mike, and to the republic (of poetry and love) for which he stands." --Alice Ostriker MCCARTHY, GERALD, _Throwing the Headlines_. 72 pages, perfect bound, paper, 2-color cover, forthcoming April 1995. White Noise #4. ISBN: 1-885215-12-6. $12. Gerald McCarthy is well known to those who study the soldier-poets of the Viet Nam war. This collection spans two decades of McCarthy's work and is an important new contribution to the field of Viet Nam war poetry. The poems in _Throwing the Headlines_ reflect McCarthy's continuing passion for peace and justice. QUINTANA, LEROY, _Interrogations_. 102 pages, perfect bound, paper, 4-color cover, 1990. ISBN: 0-9628524-5-7. Introduction by Yusef Komunyakaa. $10. The cover of this book features a watercolor made from a snapshot of Quintana's Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol. The short poems inside make art of the brief glimpses of his tour in Viet Nam. The collection of sharp, sudden poems from Viet Nam mounts to a longer moral address to then-President Bush, written just after the Gulf War. Introduce yourself to the details of jungle fighting, the perspective of a Chicano soldier, and the mature view of a poet who was a soldier once. "The characters in _Interrogations_ have been given genuine depth, and in a few succinct lines they emerge as sharply defined human beings...." --Jon Forrest Glade, _American Book Review_. RICHMAN, ELLIOT, _Walk On, Trooper_. 92 pages, perfect bound, paper, 2-color cover, 1994. White Noise #2. ISBN: 0-9628524-9-X. $12. Elliot Richman published his first poem in 1984, when he was forty-two years old. Since then, his work has appeared widely in the small press. In 1993 he was awarded fellowships for his poetry by both the NEA and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Asylum Arts has published is two previous collections, _The World Dancer_ and _Honorable Manhood_. Not a veteran, Elliot has probably published more individual poems about the Viet Nam war in more literary magazines than almost any veteran writer. His passion and preoccupation (some might even say obsession) fascinated us, and we felt that we needed to collect his Viet Nam war poems and publish them under one cover. Bill Shields, cowboy poet and hardcore combat vet (_Southeast Asian Book of the Dead_ and _Human Shrapnel_) has this to say about Elliot's work: "_Walk On, Trooper_ is one fucking real book. A straight walk into the beast with eyes wide open; it is the best--and I mean the best--book I've seen on the Viet Nam war. He went into hell to write it." We don't know if we completely agree with Bill, but we're sure that _Walk On, Trooper_ is mesmerizing. RITTERBUSCH, DALE, _Lessons Learned_. 82 pages, perfect bound, paper, 2-color cover, forthcoming July 1995. White Noise #7. ISBN: 1-885215-08-8. $12. Dale Ritterbusch began writing the poems in this volume over twenty years ago, while sitting in a class on M-60 emplacement in OCS at the Infantry School at Fort Benning. He's been writing ever since. Ritterbusch teaches English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. His poetry came to our attention through the recommendation of W.D. Ehrhart, who discovered Dale years ago, while Ehrhart was compiling the poetry for the anthology _Carrying the Darkness_. A version of _Lessons Learned_ received a publication grant in 1984 from the Ohio Arts Council, but the pressn which had committed to producing the book folded before it could be published. We are proud to produce a long-delayed volume which we are sure will become an instant classic of Viet Nam war literature. VANCIL, DAVID, _The Homesick Patrol_. 72 pages, perfect bound, paper, 2-color cover, forthcoming June 1995. White Noise #3. ISBN: 1-885215-15-0. $12. David Vancil served in Vietnam in 1969 in Khanh Hoa Province as a military advisor. He is a rare books librarian and small press publisher. David is the author of an earlier volume of poetry titled _The Art School Baby_, and is working on a memoir titled _The Sanest Man in Vietnam_. His verse is disciplined and elegant, the work of careful literary artist. ______________ Make check or money order payable to Viet Nam Generation, Inc. All individual orders must be prepaid. We accept purchase orders from bookstores and libraries. Shipping is included in the price. We do not accept returns unless books are received in damaged condition. Orders Dept. Viet Nam Generation, Inc. 18 Center Rd., Woodbridge, CT 06525 FAX: 203/389-6104 email: kalital@minerva.cis.yale.edu Kali Tal Sixties Project & Viet Nam Generation, Inc. 18 Center Rd., Woodbridge, CT 06525 203/387-6882; fax 203/389-6104 email: kalital@minerva.cis.yale.edu